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propodus granulate; fingers a little shorter than outer margm of palm. 

 Legs finely granulate; dactyli with pubescent margins. 



Measurements. — Male holotj^pe: Length on median line ILG; 

 width 1L5 mm. Ovigerous female: Length 12.8; width 12.6 mm. 



Range. — California to Peru. 



Material examined. — See table 55, page 180. 



HANDALLIA LAEVIS (Borradaile) 



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PersepJwna {Myropsis) laevis Borradaile, British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Ex- 

 pedition, 1910, Zool., vol. 3, no. 2, p. 107, fig. 16, 191G (type locality, South 

 Trinidad Island, Brazil; type in Brit. Mus.). 



Diagnosis. — CheUpeds nearly three times as long as carapace. Five 

 posterior protuberances; three short, blunt, marginal, branchial 

 spines and one hepatic. 



Figure i9.—Randallia laeris, male holotype: Carapace, 24 mm long. After Borradaile. 



Descriptio7i. — Carapace longer than broad, smooth, and minutely 

 pitted except on the hinder edge, where it is granulate ; \vdth a marked 

 median keel, indications of the regions, and a very shallow notch 

 between hepatic and branchial regions. Front with a median notch 

 between two slightly swollen projections; its edge fringed with hair, 

 barely hiding mouth-frame. Fissures of orbit well marked. Of 

 five spines in hinder region of carapace all somewhat upcurved, 

 median and laterals fairly slender, intermediates little more than 

 rectangular corners of hinder edge. Besides these, three blunt 



